When it comes to career break, most women professionals have mixed feelings. On one end, career break seems liberating, while on the other hand, there is a fear of losing your identity and being left behind in the profession. Whatever may be the reasons for taking the career break, one thing that is of utmost importance is to accept your current situation. That is, if your situation demands a career break, you must go ahead and embrace it with open mind, without guilt or fear of future. I know it’s easier said than done, but once you accept your current situation, it helps to bring a mental shift where you take your decision as a privilege, not a problem. Once you reach that point, you get the power of converting your career break from a problem, to an opportunity. Read More » “Career Break: A Privilege, Not a Problem”

Article By Lakshmi Vijaykumar, Senior Research Consultant – AVTAR Group

Welcome 2019. The New Year has begun and most of us are busy making mental notes of New Year resolutions – more exercise, less ice cream, more of me-time, less controversies or arguments, more book-reading, less negativity, more this, less that and so on. The fact is that all these promises get broken no longer than the second or the third week of the first month of the year. And the chances are that you did something similar in your previous years.